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...collected many a painting and objet d'art, a library of several thousand volumes. Said he once: "There are two more works that I have to write. When they are done, I am going to throw my library into the Isar." Though he is German to the marrow, Spengler has a passion for Italy, visits it whenever he can. Heavyset, strong-featured, with big ears and an impressively high bald head, Spengler at 53 still has great physical vigor, delights in tireless mountaineering and long hikes, likes to converse with peasants, whose quips and saws he collects with fervor...
...disclose a cause or cure of the disease called leukemia. In this disease white blood cells which normally should number 7,500 per cu. mm. multiply in some cases to as much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered for a time slow up the excess white cell production. Transfusion of normal blood has little effect, at least...
...crazy colony of foreigners whose erotic antics were hardly a help in furthering his own love affair. Caterina remained so businesslike, not to say calculating, that Mr. Belfry was not nearly so great a sinner as he would have liked to be. But he had enough Anglo-Saxon marrow to keep from going completely spineless, and finally took himself back to Cambridge and a well-ordered life...
...piece is that somewhat shopworn old devil, the Victorian Age. Monica, only daughter of anxious parents whose every nerve was strained to do the socially right thing, was in a ticklish position from the very start. By her mother, her friends, her teachers it was dinned into her marrow that the one aim in life of every nice girl was to have & hold a Husband. Potential husbands were scarce, aware of their own value, easily frightened, had to be lured with a mingled sway of coyness and charm. Had Monica only minced down the narrow, correct way she had been...
...days were over the theatre was closed. Lately the University of Denver decided to use it for annual play festivals, of which last week's was the first. Patrons paid for hard hickory chairs. Director Robert Edmond Jones designed a stage setting lighted by old oil lamps. Composer Macklin Marrow wrote special music for the performance. For first-night and succeeding audiences Actress Gish displayed her famed wanness, made patrons sniffle during the death scene...